[gst-devel] Synchronization & frame trashing ...

[Thomas Vander Stichele]

On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 12:37 +0200, Gergely Nagy wrote:
> > > Hi !
> > >
> > >    I wanted to know what happens when trying to play a file with a 
> > > CPU-consumer format on an old computer which can't decode in realtime
> > >
> > >    Is the file played slowly, or are some frames dropped sometimes to 
> > > try to keep realtime ? And if frames are dropped, who decides to drop 
> > > frames in GStreamer ?
> > >

Hi,

> I believe it will play slow (unless you have a huge queue, but that
> needs huge amounts of RAM, which the old computer probably doesn't
> have), unless you specially set up your pipeline to drop frames.

Currently it will drop frames in the video sink, but that's a
comparatively less intensive part of your pipeline when decoding.  The
decoder will still try to decode *all* frames, so if your CPU is already
overwhelmed by the decoder, the framedropping in the sink doesn't really
help, and it will end up playing nothing since all frames arrive late.

Thomas


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